I've always said if a woman is looking for a good husband, she should go for a Jewish man past 60. Jewish men are essentially brought up to love women. Then you rebel against that and become a bit of a bastard. Then at 60, you revert.Howard Jacobson
I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.Salman Rushdie
The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.Salman Rushdie
One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.Salman Rushdie
Mediums change you by their very existence. They do this on fundamental levels because they force you to favour certain parts of your brain over others.Douglas Coupland
Florida isn't so much a place where one goes to reinvent oneself, as it is a place where one goes if one no longer wished to be found.Douglas Coupland
